Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.
BYRON KATIEWe are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.
More Byron Katie Quotes
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If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.
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Reality is always kinder than your thinking.
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Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that’s the end of suffering.
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Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.
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You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected.
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Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
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Life just happens. It’s what you’re believing about life that makes you suffer.
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Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there’s nothing to know.
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Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?
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In my experience, we don’t make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn’t personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.
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When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.
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The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
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Any thought of discomfort or stress is an alarm that lets you know you’re believing an untrue thought.
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Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.
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If you think the cause of your problem is ‘out there,’ you’ll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.
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I came to see that there was nothing to forgive, that I was the one who caused my own problems.
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I came to see that the world is always as it should be, whether I opposed it or not.
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Put your stressful thoughts on paper, question them, and have a great life.
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I see the goodness and beauty in everyone, and everything is a gift given for me and for all of us. If you don’t love it, question your mind until you do.
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Bottom line is, if someone says something about me and it upsets me, it’s true.
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No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don’t let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.
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Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
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We’re all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.
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The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: “God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen.”
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You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer”.
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